Archaean tectonics: A review, with illustrations from the Slave craton

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 199, Issue , 2002, Pages 151-181

  Bleeker, Wouter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRATON; GREENSTONE BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0037005390     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.199.01.09     Document Type: Article

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